Voice Profiling

[ysabetwordsmith]

People use voice profiling and recording to spy on each other.

Shit like this is why I refuse to be recorded.  And that means there are things I can't get, especially services.  Remember, it's not consent if there are consequences to either choice.

Also bear in mind that when a society routinely pressures or forces people to do things they don't want, or abuses them for making choices that annoy those in power, you wind up with a really rape-friendly nation like America.  >_<

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Re: Thoughts

[(Anonymous)]

>>There has always been pressure on retail and customer service personnel to do a lot of emotional labor to make others happy.<<

Discussed in the comments for letter #1 [How to Handle a Creep at Someone Else's Workplace] here:

https://www.askamanager.org/2021/06/how-to-handle-a-creep-at-someone-elses-workplace-should-i-return-to-the-office-if-im-immunocompromised-and-more.html

>>What's new is the increasing amount of tools available to bosses to spy on employees and pressure them to meet those demands...<<

What bothers me is these demands are often things the worker has no control over.

Take timers at the drive-through: it is the worker's responsibility to make the times low, but the worker has no control over if the customer is still thinking, is having an argument with their kids, refuses to move because they are mad they can't use a coupon, etc.

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> What bothers me is these demands are often things the worker has no control over. <<

Or can only control in ways that are less ethical, more manipulative, etc.

This is a key reason why the stress runs high enough to ruin health.

It's not just emotional, though. Amazon injures its warehouse workers by using spytech to push "efficiency" in ways that exceed the healthy performance of the human body. A supervisor can sometimes be slipped around for a bathroom break or a few minutes' rest. A computer or a camera, not so much.

Re: Thoughts

[(Anonymous)]

I was fortunate enough to have good compassionate bosses.

So we had to stand at the registers, but they let me take an early lunch and use a chair the one time I almost fainted from low blood sugar, or on another occasion prefaced "You cant sit here" with "I know you don't feel well, but..."

They were also fairly good with communication, and problem solving, and delegating tasks by a person's skills.

So anyone who hung around for awhile was pretty loyal.